English
prisonable
From prison + -able.
Formed from prison + -able
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- ‘to find’
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Latin prehēnsiō ‘an act of seizing’
Old French prison
Old English prisūn ‘prison’
Middle English prisoun ‘prison’
English prison
Today it means
adj Synonym of imprisonable (“carrying a sentence of imprisonment”).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “prisonable”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / prisonable